맹자의 성(性)으로 본 민살풀이춤

Abstract

Sometimes it is more deeply touching to see a plain dance just like standing rather than colorful technologies in dance performance by a true master. For example, looking at Jo, Gapnyeo and Jang, Geumdo dancing traditional dance, the texture of dance is obviously different in obtaining time and space. An impressive dance showing all the more remarkable mind than any virtuosity, what would be that? Casual and physical dance without being tied to body though, the essential and fundamental question where might lie the beginning and end of true dancing study from which the research has been started. Mencius called mind a collectively associated movement of true self, attachment and understanding. Attachment is materialized true self. Understanding, in other words, function of mind such as thought, comprehension, assessment and perception, interacts in the materialization process of True self into attachment. The true self by Mencius and study of mind to learn from traditional dance have something in common. The purpose and requirement of this research lie in revival of the property of traditional dance and progressive recovery taking care of mind focusing on inside the heart rather than external beauty of movement based upon traditional ideas of considering body and mind as one unit whilst the whole world is experiencing intense materialism as of now. The study is significant in analyzing the motion of Minsalpuri dance by Jo, Gapnyeo philosophically compared to true self idea of Mencius. These attempts have never been found in earlier researches and we hope it would be the cornerstone for conducting academic works in the future to connect study of mind in classic philosophy and thoughts on body in traditional dance.